{"id":3184,"date":"2011-05-05T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2011-04-26T22:52:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T02:52:46","slug":"year-2-month-5-day-5-and-not-a-drop-to-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-5-day-5-and-not-a-drop-to-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 5, Day 5: And Not A Drop To Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Independent also writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/coloradoindependent.com\/85574\/secretary-salazar-releases-climate-change-report-and-it-isnt-pretty\">the Interior Department report on water shortages:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The report, which responds to requirements under the SECURE Water Act of 2009, shows several increased risks to western United States water resources during the 21st century. Specific projections include:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 a temperature increase of 5-7 degrees Fahrenheit;<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 a precipitation increase over the northwestern and north-central portions of the western United States and a decrease over the southwestern and south-central areas;<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 a decrease for almost all of the April 1st snowpack, a standard benchmark measurement used to project river basin runoff; and<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 an 8 to 20 percent decrease in average annual stream flow in several river basins, including the Colorado, the Rio Grande, and the San Joaquin.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sent April 26:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The coming decades of intensifying climate change are going to wreak a singular sort of havoc on the American West.  With a history of complex water disputes going back to the first settlers in the area, Colorado&#8217;s future shortages will make those of previous centuries pale in comparison.  Climate scientists have sounded the alarm for years; Secretary Salazar&#8217;s report is only the latest in a long line of studies and investigations, all pointing to more or less the same conclusion: climate change is real, it&#8217;s caused by humans, it&#8217;s happening everywhere \u2014 and it&#8217;s going to cause us all a world of hurt.  Meanwhile, the national discussion of this grave danger has been grossly distorted by professional denialists, whose paymasters in the fossil fuel industry are loath to relinquish even a tiny fraction of their immense profits.  Sadly, &#8220;enlightened self-interest&#8221; is as rare today as water will be in 2040.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Independent also writes about the Interior Department report on water shortages: The report, which responds to requirements under the SECURE Water Act of 2009, shows several increased risks to western United States water resources during the 21st century. Specific projections include: \u00b7 a temperature increase of 5-7 degrees Fahrenheit; \u00b7 a precipitation increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[680,253,375,575],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-corporate-irresponsibility","tag-denialists","tag-department-of-the-interior","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}